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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!usenet.coe.montana.edu!decwrl!olivea!uunet!emba-news.uvm.edu!sadye.emba.uvm.edu!wollman Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Help with restoring my drive Message-ID: <1993Jun11.225857.11818@uvm.edu> From: wollman@sadye.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1993 22:58:57 GMT Sender: news@uvm.edu References: <1993Jun7.215922.6403@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <C8BM7q.HM8@veda.is> <1993Jun11.065650.28966@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Organization: University of Vermont, EMBA Computer Facility Lines: 20 In article <1993Jun11.065650.28966@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >It also supposes a valid disklabel with exactly the same geometry as before; >if you have to find that out, the only think you can look at safely is the >first partition until you have the others squared away. If he remebered his >disklabel exactly, he could newfs -N, but not otherwise. Which I why I made a point of putting copies of both my disklabels (in ``template'' form as required by the disklabel command) on my fixit disk, so if anything gets frotzed, I can restore them, too. (Unfortunately, I am much less sanguine about being able to restore all my files from tape over the network, if the need arose.) -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@emba.uvm.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. uvm-gen!wollman | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people UVM disagrees. | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant